The farmers gathering for the annual opening of the Baltimore Farmers’ Market beneath the JFX today might be surprised to read this gem about Baltimore in an article about a hip Portland-based butcher in the New York Times Magazine. “ ‘We have the Willamette Valley and eastern Oregon that’s full of great small farmers.’...
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The Office of Legislative Audits dropped a thick and scathing performance audit on the Board of Liquor License Commissioners, the Baltimore-based state agency that polices the bars and liquor stores in the city. Among the April 3 findings: The liquor board has no written policies and procedures for its inspectors. It also has two...
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One of the more intriguing defendants in the 16-member federal pot-conspiracy case involving the shuttered Sonar nightclub in downtown Baltimore (“Risky Business,” Feature, Aug. 15, 2012) has been 32-year-old Jeremiah “Jeremy” Brandon Landsman, the Baltimore real-estate developer whose JBL Real Estate, based in Fells Point, is tied to several properties that figured in the...
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Charles Cohen’s feature sizes up how well Maryland and Virginia are working together to help shore up the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba reports on the city’s persistently dangerous playgrounds and Brennen Jensen updates the city’s efforts to bring a supermarket to Oldtown Mall. The Nose wonders whether Robert Ehrlich’s...
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Afefe Tyehimba’s photo-feature showcases some of Baltimore’s store-front churches. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba covers universal health-care bills in the Maryland legislature and Charles Cohen reports that city crews removed historic granite curbstones from the Hollins Market neighborhood. The Nose catches up with George Balog, the former Baltimore City public-works director turned owner of...
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MoJo has an interesting vid of Mitt Romney laying it out to his base. You’ve probably seen or heard about it. Most of the attention so far has been focused on his remarks about the “47 percent who are with , who are dependent on government.” But later in the speech Romney says...
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The first annual City Paper Comics Contest’s introduction asks, “Where did we go wrong?” First place goes to C. Kang and S. Kang’s Taste Like Chicken, winning the strip a place in the paper every week for a year. Coming in second is Dwayne Johnson’s Maximum Man. Tied for third are Robert T. Balder’s /Partially...
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The Sparrows Point auction winner is equipment liquidator Hilco Industrial, which bought the idled steel plant yesterday for $72 million, the Baltimore Brew reports. The auction of bankrupt RG Steel assets drew no steel companies and, according to an e-mail United Steelworkers Local 9477 President Joe Rosel sent to members, “did not go as...
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Ralph Brave’s feature makes the case for law-enforcement use of DNA profiling. In Mobtown Beat, Augusta Olsen profiles Claudia Joy Wingo, a medical herbalist specializing in menopause treatment. The Nose sniffs out controversies over a beer-drinking Jesus billboard and a water-taxi merger. In Campaign Beat, Van Smith reports on an Al Sharpton-allied uprising in...
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Ned Oldham’s feature profiles Paul Darmafall, better known as outsider artist The Baltimore Glassman. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on opposition to a new supermarket in Waverly. The Nose finds former Baltimore City Council President Lawrence Bell working as a talk-radio host in Atlanta. In Campaign Beat, Erika Blount Danois reports on the...
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George Cerny’s feature covers the tempest brewed by historian Vernon Pedersen’s The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-1957. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith shows how the Leonie Barnes arson-murder trial exposed the Baltimore City Fire Department’s investigative frailties. The Nose wonders about a Hollins Market shooting in front of the after-hours club Enterlude, and finds...
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The 2002 Film Fest Frenzy issue, hyping the Maryland Film Festival, has an introduction, a guide to panel discussions, and reviews of feature films and shorts. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on the Patterson Park Pagoda’s renovations. The Nose gets the skinny on a new Giant supermarket in Waverly and Mayor Martin O’Malley’s...
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OC Alternatives Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Assateague Island National Seashore, North Point State Park, Rehoboth Beach, and more 5/15/2013
Real-Life Embarassing Sex Stories Feature: Submitted by City Paper readers 2/13/2013
Charm Offensive Feature: Meet the unpaid, underappreciated, and underprotected stars of underwear football By Violet Levoit 5/22/2013
Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 77 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/15/2013
City Treasure City Folk: Charlie Riemer kept City Hall running, finishes his own race By Rafael Alvarez 5/22/2013
Crazy Horse Film: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret By Lee Gardner 4/4/2012